so, why is SE support jobless people?

[Vahlnir]

This is more them launching the servers at the usual time...you know, the time they usually do on patch day, and less about catering to a certain group of people. There just happens to be houses coming with this patch. So, either plan in advance or get up super early and hype yourself up with a ton of coffee. Pretty much all there is to it. We've known that Shirogane was coming for awhile now.

[Zfz]

Why don't they just have 1 week before the patch when people can go to the plot they want and register a bid? When you bid, you all pay the same full price and the gil will be held by the system. During maintenance, the server randomly draws one bid for each plot and the plot is given to the lucky bidder. When server opens, gil for failed bids are returned in the mail.

Also let people see how many bids have already been registered for each plot, during the bidding week, and allow people to retract on their bids at most once every 18 hours without gil penalty. Each service account can only make one bid per server.

It's way better than making time zone the determining factor and becoming a disruption to real life schedule.

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Obviously, the even better solution is to stop this nonsence with limited availability.

[Rhyku]

Wow OP, people who can afford to get Shirogane housing are jobless?
You need to troll harder or learn how to take a day off.

[Krotoan]

... Pretty "sour grapes" there. Patch time is known well in advance. People with jobs are planning already. Set an an alarm. Call in "sick" if it's that important to you. I'm betting it's gonna be a DC fest even if you are there for it.

[Serilda]

Surely it's fine for most people with jobs (I took a day off along with a few friends). People with school have a better cause for complaint since they can't do that without deceit.

The idea to allow bids would be far more stressful! If you really want a house would you have to place multiple bids for hundreds of millions of gil, then if you were picked multiple times relocation would be chaos. It would allow resellers to be even sneakier. First come first served is fair, even if the actual day is gong to be rough.

Just take a day off or get a friend to. Most non-solo FCs should have at least one person who can.

[Seig345]

Why don't they just have 1 week before the patch when people can go to the plot they want and register a bid? When you bid, you all pay the same full price and the gil will be held by the system. During maintenance, the server randomly draws one bid for each plot and the plot is given to the lucky bidder. When server opens, gil for failed bids are returned in the mail. [...]

I really like this idea for whenever they open new wards. I think they could just let any plots that are sold or demolished behave as they do now, but I like the idea of changing it from a contest of who has the better connection/hardware/schedule (none of which feel like something that should actually be a 'part' of this game, at least to me) and turning it into RNG. Less stress; just bid and cross your fingers.

[Frizze]

It's a HUGE investment though. Even a cottage will run you several million, and I am no too sure how much apartments run for.

Apartments are 500k.

[Ametrine]

Apartments don't get demo'd if you can't log in for months, and give you access to some of the housing utilities like the chocobo stable.

Seriously, they are instanced, unlimited, cheaper, and are yours forever.

Use them.

[Penthea]

shirogane will be avaiable after maintance. which will be 12:00 in EU time. well. i have to work there. so no chance for me to get a plot. realy fair. maybe i should risk my real job to get a plot there?^^ lul

I know loads of people who booked a day off work or swapped a shift with a co-worker...so it's not like it's impossible for everyone who has a job to make time for the launch of the patch.

And for some reason it hasn't occurred to you that the game is Japanese so launch times will be aimed for their convenience, not for those in an entirely different time zone.

[Mycow8me]

bruh just call in dead. Works every ti.... wait a minute.